Friday - Another Trip to the E.R.

Gracie had another pretty good night, but when she awoke was still tired and didn't get her snuggle time, so it took her a minute to find her smile.

Gracie had smiles when I dropped her off at daycare and she blew me kisses when I left. Jeff picked Gracie up midafternoon and she was in a great mood. We had a late afternoon appointment in Developmental Pediatrics and the nurse practitioner that sees her was very pleased with her progress. She is around a 15 month level at many things, but her inability to do a purposeful release of objects hinders her from doing many age appropriate skills. Her need to put everything in her mouth hinders as well. All in all, a good appointment. We don't need to go back for six months.

Jeff took Gracie home and I headed to Target to pick up a few things. As I was leaving, I got a call from Jeff - he was on the way to the ER with Gracie. She spiked over a 104 degree temp, her breathing became extremely labored, she began having the chills, and then she went totally limp on him. I met Jeff and Gracie at the ER and she was very obviously not feeling well. They gave her oxygen to help her saturation levels for a very short time and took a chest x-ray. The x-ray showed a little fluid in the right lobe where she had pneumonia previously, although they don't think it is pneumonia. We need to watch her very closely, as sometimes x-rays are delayed in showing pneumonia. They gave her ibuprofen for the fever and checked her out pretty thoroughly. Once her fever came down, she started breathing much easier. They took a flu swab and we'll hear from the nurses on that hopefully tomorrow.

We are now home, Gracie is asleep and still has a fever, but it is only around 100 and she is breathing much more easily. I think I'll go snuggle in with her.

Prayers are welcome for our little girl to be healthy again.

All our love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie